Turmeric, a great potential for health - Good and Vegan

Curcuma longa or turmeric is a herbaceous, perennial, flowering and rhizomatous plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae and native to Southeast Asia and India. The roots of turmeric are used as spice in the kitchen. This plant has received abundant attention from the scientific, medical and culinary fields. C. longa, which is the source of curcumin, a polyphenolic pigment, has been used for centuries for its therapeutic effects in Ayurvedic me…